10/01/2013 | Argentina

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner announced in a televised speech that all the coaches of the Sarmiento and Mitre train lines will be renovated. She also criticized City Mayor Mauricio Macri and said she considers a $3.80 subway fare "outrageous."

13/01/2013 | Argentina

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner arrived to the United Arab Emirates in the first stop for her Asian tour which includes visits to Vietnam and Indonesia as part of an eleven day-long official trip. CFK first visit was to Cuba, where she met with family members of ailing Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez.

25/01/2014 | Argentina

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner arrived at Havana's José Martí airport this morning to take part in the Celac summit along with her Latin American and Cairbbean couterparts. Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman, Public Communication Secretary Alfredo Scoccimarro, Entre Ríos province Governor Sergio Urribarri and Radical Party leader Leopoldo Moreou are among the politicians joining Ms. Kirchner in Cuba.

27/01/2014 | Argentina

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner used her personal Twitter account to rail against figures in the banking and financial industries, which according to the head of state used speculative practices to send Argentina into default in 2001.

27/01/2014 | Argentina

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner today revealed the outcomes of meetings held with former Cuba head of state Fidel Castro emphasising that she was "enchanted" to have been invited to lunch by the legendary revolutionary figure.

29/01/2014 | Argentina

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner arrived in Buenos Aires City today after attending the summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) in Havana, Cuba. The head of state is now at the Olivos presidential residency.

12/07/2014 | Argentina

Russia’s Vladimir Putin arrived at the Casa Rosada presidential palace today where he met President Cristina Fernández de Kirechner to sign bilateral cooperation agreements key areas such as energy and communications.

17/12/2014 | Argentina

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has praised the normalization of United States and Cuba relations announced by US President Barack Obama and Cuban leader Raúl Castro, during the MERCOSUR summit held in Entre Ríos.

18/12/2014 | Argentina

18/12/2014 | Argentina

Argentine ambassador to Cuba Juliana Marino considered ex Cuban president Fidel Castro “must be very happy” following landmark news of the release of three prisoners that had been jailed in the US on spying charges, the three of them part of the so called “Cuban 5” group of Cubans arrested in 1998.

18/12/2014 | Argentina

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner called the UK government ‘to sit and dialogue’ over the Malvinas Islands’ dispute, and gave as an example the agreement reached yesterday between the United States and Cuba.

19/12/2014 | Argentina

03/07/2014 | Argentina

The governments of China and Cuba have ratified their support to Argentina in its long-standing battle against vulture funds, a legal dispute that threatens to plunge the South American country into what the federal government has called the “euphemism” of a “technical default.”

18/12/2014 | World

Pope Francis, who played a key role in the breakthrough in US-Cuban relations –as presidents Barack Obama and Raúl Castro highlighted-, expressed his joy for the historic rapprochement after 53 years of hostility.

18/12/2014 | World

Following yesterday’s historic renewal of bilateral relations between the US and Cuba, Bolivia’s president Evo Morales joined his South American counterparts who have praised the breakthrough as a Cuban victory.

06/01/2015 | World

08/01/2015 | World

12/03/2011 | World

US aid contractor Alan Gross has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for crimes against the Cuban state, state-run television reported, in the latest setback to relations between two Cold War enemies.

28/10/2014 | World

A total of 188 countries out of 193 voted against the restrictions that Washington holds against the Caribbean nation, which date back to 1962 - three years after Fidel Castro took power in a revolution against dictator Fulgencio Batista.

17/12/2014 | World

17/12/2014 | World

US President Barack Obama and Cuba’s Raúl Castro thanked Pope Francis for his role in the talks for normalizing relations. The Vatican expressed “warm congratulations for the historic decision” and offered its good offices “to facilitate a constructive dialogue.”

11/02/2014 | World

A strong majority of Americans - and an even greater percentage of Floridians - support normalizing relations with Cuba, according to a poll released by the Atlantic Council, a Washington-based think tank.

19/06/2013 | World

The United States and Cuba have agreed to resume regular migration talks in a possible sign of thawing relations after more than three years of tensions over Cuba's jailing of a US government contract worker.

27/06/2013 | World

04/05/2012 | World

A US contractor imprisoned in Cuba praised Raúl Castro's economic reforms but called the Cuban government's treatment of him "shameful" in his first media interview since he was jailed more than two years ago.

20/08/2012 | World

American long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad pushed ahead today, overcoming a night of lightning, rain and whipping winds in her latest bid to become the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage.

21/08/2012 | World

Veteran long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad reached dry land, although not the way she had hoped after giving up on her fourth and possibly final attempt to make the 103-mile (166-km) swim from Cuba to the United States.

29/12/2012 | World

A Spanish political activist who was convicted in the death of prominent Cuban dissident Oswaldo Paya in a car crash in Cuba in July arrived in Spain to serve out his four-year prison sentence, media reports said.

21/01/2011 | World

Cuba has suspended postal deliveries to the United States, its mail firm said, in a step backward for ties between neighbouring countries that have made cautious progress in repairing a Cold War-era rift.

27/03/2012 | World

Pope Benedict and Cuban President Raúl Castro met on Tuesday for talks on a papal trip that has sparked hopes for economic and political change, but one national leader said there would be no political reform on the communist island.

14/04/2012 | World

US President Barack Obama called for the possibility of overcoming “the diplomacy of the Cold War,” today in reference to the dispute with Cuba, whilst participating in the CEO summit given prior to the inauguration of the VI Summit of the Americas taking place in Cartagena, Colombia.

26/03/2011 | World

Former US President Jimmy Carter will meet with Cuban President Raúl Castro, the leader of Cuba's Catholic Church and the island's Jewish community during a Havana visit starting on Monday amid speculation he will seek the release of a jailed US aid contractor.

06/03/2012 | World

United States Air Force Commander, General Douglas Fraser, in charge of the US Southern Command, stated before Congress that the Department of Defence is “watchful for potential geopolitical turbulence that could impact US citizens,” and highlighted the uncertainties of Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez health and economic instability.

24/10/2011 | World

Castro denounced NATO for its role in the overthrow of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, saying the "brutal military alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of repression the history of humanity has known."

30/07/2011 | Latin America

Cuba will broaden private retail service beyond beauty parlors and barbers in October to include everything from coffee shops to locksmiths, and may even rent space on busy streets, an official told parliament.

08/01/2014 | Latin America

Cuban state taxi drivers will soon be leasing their vehicles and working on their own as part of a reorganization of the country's taxi service aimed at improving efficiency. The measure follows the similar transfer of barbers, beauticians, small cafeterias and other retail services by the state to what is called the "non-state" sector as part of market-oriented reforms under way in the Communist-run country.

25/10/2011 | Latin America

The UN General Assembly called for the 20th straight year on the United States to lift its trade embargo against Cuba, as the communist-run island dismissed as fraudulent US moves to ease some restrictions.

03/11/2011 | Latin America

Cubans will be able to buy and sell houses for the first time in more than five decades in a long-awaited reform that legalizes what many have done for years but also restricts how much property they can own, state-run press said.

08/11/2011 | Latin America

Social media moved into a new realm in technologically backward Cuba when Cuban President Raúl Castro's controversial daughter Mariela began tweeting and quickly got into the Twitter equivalent of a shouting match with dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez.

28/11/2011 | Latin America

The Cuban government will begin contracting out some services to the private sector next year in a break from the state-dominated past aimed at helping small business develop, government insiders said.

14/03/2012 | Latin America

Cuban dissidents occupied a Roman Catholic church in Havana in what a Church spokesman said was part of a broader orchestrated action to get Pope Benedict to press for change when he visits later this month.

19/03/2012 | Latin America

Cuba released 70 members of the dissident Ladies in White group detained during the weekend but warned them not to attend activities related to next week's visit of Pope Benedict, the group's leader said.

23/03/2012 | Latin America

“Cuba will receive and listen affectionately and respectfully to what Pope Benedict XVI has to say,” Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez told the international press today. His remarks come just a few hours after the international media published the Pope’s views on the island’s regime.

27/03/2011 | Latin America

Former US President Jimmy Carter will begin a three-day visit to Cuba on Monday for what is described as a "private, non-governmental mission" where the main topic may be the fate of a US aid contractor jailed for setting up illegal Internet service.

28/03/2011 | Latin America

Former President Jimmy Carter, returning to Cuba for the first time since a groundbreaking 2002 trip, began a three-day visit on Monday to discuss troubled US-Cuba relations and is likely to talk about the fate of imprisoned US aid contractor Alan Gross.

08/04/2011 | Latin America

A Texas jury acquitted an 83-year-old anti-Castro Cuban exile and former CIA operative, considered an archfoe by Havana, of charges he lied to US authorities about his role in bomb attacks against tourist areas in Cuba in 1997.

17/04/2011 | Latin America

Cuba will consider placing term limits on its leaders to assure new blood in the goverment, President Raúl Castro said in a speech kicking off a Communist Party congress on the island he and his brother led for more than five decades.

30/04/2011 | Latin America

Two obscure Cuban dissidents who sewed their mouths partially shut and launched a hunger strike a month ago said they were prepared to die for their demands, which include freedom for jailed US contractor Alan Gross and improved human rights.

09/05/2011 | Latin America

Cuba might be about to undergo a historic transition.Raul Castro’s government might allow Cubans to travel abroad, said local government in a new political reformed plan.it is going to be the first time in over fifty years that Cuba’s citizens are allowed to travel abroad as tourists.

19/12/2011 | Latin America

The United States believes increasingly warm ties between Venezuela, Iran and Cuba do not benefit the Venezuelan people, US President Barack Obama said in an interview with a Venezuelan newspaper published today.

23/12/2011 | Latin America

Cuba, which is preparing for a visit by Pope Benedict XVI next spring, will release 2,900 prisoners in the coming days for humanitarian reasons, including some convicted of crimes against "the security of the state," the Cuban government said.

24/12/2011 | Latin America

The United States deplored Cuba's apparent failure to free Alan Gross, a US. citizen serving a 15-year prison term in a case that has stalled progress in US.-Cuba relations, as part of an announced humanitarian release of some 2,900 prisoners.

26/12/2011 | Latin America

Cuba will open up more of the country's retail services to the private sector next year, allowing Cubans to operate various services such as appliance and watch repair, and locksmith and carpentry shops, official media reported.

06/01/2012 | Latin America

Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro said the world was on an "inexorable march toward the abyss," which he blamed in part on the discovery and exploitation of vast reserves of so-called "shale gas" around the world.

20/01/2012 | Latin America

A 31-year-old jailed dissident, Wilmar Villar Mendoza, died in eastern Cuba from the effects of a 56-day hunger strike and what fellow opposition activists believe was mistreatment by the Cuban government, a Cuban human rights activist said.

31/01/2012 | Latin America

Brazil is willing to keep its commitment to Cuba and maintain its economic cooperation with the island, Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff said on Tuesday during a two-day visit to Cuba in which she will be focused on trade.

23/02/2012 | Latin America

Venezuela's ailing socialist leader, Hugo Chávez, will fly to Cuba on Friday for an unknown period to undergo new cancer surgery that has shaken the South American nation before an October presidential election.

28/02/2012 | Latin America

Surgeons "completely" removed a lesion from Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez's pelvis and the socialist leader is in good physical condition after the operation in Cuba, Venezuela's vice president said on.

31/05/2011 | Latin America

The former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is to arrive today in Cuba to meet the island’s mandate Raul Castro in a tour that will also include a visit to Chavez’ Venezuela. According to the Cuban official newspaper Granma, Lula will hold “a work meeting” with Raúl Castro and will visit “sites of economic interest.”

07/06/2011 | Latin America

The body of political prisoner Orlando Zapata Tamayo, whose death by hunger strike last year provoked international criticism of Cuba was exhumed for cremation today, his family said, enabling them to take his remains when they emigrate to the United States.

16/06/2011 | Latin America

UN Secretary Ban Ki-moon is in Brazil rallying for support for his candidacy for a second term as the head of the United Nations. The trip marks the conclusion of a South American tour that has taken him to Colombia, Argentina and Uruguay.

01/07/2011 | Latin America

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez is recovering "satisfactorily" from surgery to remove a cancerous tumor and will be home "soon," the head of the South American nation's military said today. General Henry Rangel Silva added.

01/07/2011 | Latin America

Cuba will authorize limited housing and car markets by 2012, the Communist party newspaper Granma said today, a move awaited by local residents since the early 1960s when home and most auto sales were banned.

05/07/2011 | Latin America

Venezuela celebrated the 200th anniversary of its independence with President Hugo Chávez back in his palace after a triumphant return from cancer surgery in Cuba that has left him weakened but defiant.

20/07/2011 | Latin America

Future prospects for improving US-Cuba ties will be at stake when Cuba's highest court hears an appeal on Friday from jailed US aid contractor Alan Gross against his 15-year sentence for crimes against the state.

14/08/2011 | Latin America

One of Communist-ruled Cuba's best-known singers, Pablo Milanes, said in quoted comments he would like to see more freedom to protest on the island as he prepared for a controversial concert this month in Miami.

17/08/2011 | Latin America

Cuban singer Pablo Milanés has not yet played a note of his planned Aug. 27 concert in Miami but the event has already drummed up unharmonious debate among Cuban exiles between opponents and supporters of the event.

30/08/2011 | Latin America

Leaders of the dissident group Ladies in White asked the Catholic Church to intervene with the Cuban government to end what they described as violent acts against them and other human rights activists.

10/09/2011 | Latin America

Fidel Castro, in an audio aired on Venezuelan state television late last night, joked about rumours circulating in the capital, Miami and on Twitter over the past few weeks that he was gravely ill or had died.

17/09/2011 | Latin America

Venezuela's cancer-stricken leader Hugo Chavez said he will return to Cuba today for a fourth and probably last round of chemotherapy, vowing to be recovered and fit for a tough re-election campaign next year.

29/09/2011 | Latin America

Former Cuban President Fidel Castro lashed out at US President Barack Obama today for suggesting bilateral relations could improve if Cuba became more democratic, and he said the communist nation would not bow to US pressure.

15/10/2011 | Latin America

"Ladies in White" leader Laura Pollán was remembered with a simple altar in her home in a crumbling Havana neighborhood and vows that the group she founded in defiance of Cuba's government would go on.

07/09/2012 | Latin America

Cuba's failure to encourage more foreign investment is crippling its economic performance and putting its goal of sustainable growth in danger unless changes are made, local experts and diplomats said this week

10/09/2012 | Latin America

A failure in a main transmission line in central Cuba caused a blackout that cut electricity for hours to more than half the country on Sunday night, but now power has been mostly restored, the government said.

20/09/2012 | Latin America

Both the United States and Cuba would benefit if Washington would lift its longstanding trade embargo against the island, but US President Barack Obama has toughened the sanctions since taking office in 2009, a top Cuban official said.

05/10/2012 | Latin America

Prominent dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez, a Buenos Aires Herald contributor, has been arrested along with her husband Reinaldo Escobar, in the city of Bayamo, Cuba, a website with close ties to Cuban government reported today.

16/10/2012 | Latin America

Cuba will scrap much reviled travel restrictions starting in January, easing most Cubans' exit and return, state media said today, in the communist island's first major immigration reform in half a century.

18/10/2012 | Latin America

Colombian government and leftist rebel negotiators agreed to meet in Cuba in mid-November to start what are likely to be thorny peace talks aimed at patching together an end to half a century of conflict, both sides said.

18/10/2012 | Latin America

A letter by former Cuban leader Fidel Castro congratulating a Havana medical institute on its 50th anniversary was splashed across the front pages of Cuban newspapers in his first appearance in print in four months.

22/11/2012 | Latin America

Colombia's FARC rebels freed three captive Chinese oil workers and their translator after holding them in jungle camps for more than a year, the defence ministry said today, an apparent goodwill gesture as the rebels seek to negotiate a peace accord to end five decades of war.

27/11/2012 | Latin America

Following a nearly two-week absence from the public eye, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will travel to Cuba for medical treatment, months after he underwent chemotherapy and radiation for cancer there.

29/11/2012 | Latin America

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is doing well as he receives medical treatment in Cuba, Vice President Nicolas Maduro said today, despite a two-week absence from public view that has raised fresh doubts about his health.

07/12/2012 | Latin America

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez returned from Cuba today following cancer-related medical treatment, walking and joking at the airport in a first public appearance in three weeks that quashed rumors he might have been at death's door.

09/12/2012 | Latin America

Venezuela's President Hugo Chaáez returns to Cuba for more surgery after a recurrence of cancer led him to name a successor for the first time in a sign the disease may force an end to his 14-year rule.

11/12/2012 | Latin America

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's cancer operation in Cuba yesterday was a success, his vice president said, adding that the complex surgery had lasted more than six hours and he would be recuperating for several days.

15/12/2012 | Latin America

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has recovered "full intellectual capacity" after a six-hour cancer operation in Cuba this week, an official said today, but offered few details on the socialist firebrand's physical condition.

20/12/2012 | Latin America

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is conscious and recovering a week after a cancer surgery he underwent in Cuba, and "in good conditions" after suffering a respiratory infection, according to Vice-President Nicolás Maduro.

15/04/2012 | Latin America

Unprecedented Latin American opposition to US sanctions on Cuba left President Barack Obama isolated at a summit on Sunday and illustrated Washington's declining influence in a region being aggressively courted by China.

16/04/2012 | Latin America

The 6th Summit of the Americas ended yesterday in the Colombian city of Cartagena de indias without a joint declaration thanks to divisions over Cuba and Argentina's sovereignty claim over the Malvinas Islands.

23/04/2012 | Latin America

A healthy-sounding President Hugo Chávez called Venezuelan state television from Cuba to dispel rumors fanned by a nine-day silence that he had died undergoing cancer treatment at a hospital in Havana.

24/04/2012 | Latin America

Photos released by the Venezuelan government showed Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez wearing a track suit and strolling in a garden in Havana with Foreign Minister Nicolás Maduro, playing bowls with his brother, Adán, and kissing a crucifix as he hugged his daughter, María Gabriela.

26/04/2012 | Latin America

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has returned home after 11 days of cancer treatment in Cuba as the state television showed images of the Head of State chatting with his vice president and other aides after arriving at Caracas' international airport early today.

28/03/2012 | Latin America

Pope Benedict will step onto Cuba's biggest stage today with a public mass in Havana's Revolution Square as he wraps up a trip that began with a blast at communism and will end with a visit with Fidel Castro.

27/03/2012 | Latin America

Pope Benedict urged Cubans to build a better, "renewed and open society" and pressed the communist government to give the Catholic Church more liberties to help the country as it faced an uncertain future.

28/03/2012 | Latin America

Pope Benedict ended his visit to Cuba on Wednesday by urging the communist-run island to search for "authentic freedom" and condemning a 50-year-old US trade embargo while also making time to meet with ailing revolutionary icon Fidel Castro.

02/04/2012 | Latin America

Ecuador's President Rafael Correa said he will not attend this month's Summit of the Americas in Colombia, nor any other gathering that excludes Cuba or fails to address what he calls the region's most pressing issues.

06/04/2012 | Latin America

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wept and asked God to spare his life during a pre-Easter Mass after returning from his latest session of cancer treatment in Cuba. Chavez has undergone three operations in less than a year, and received two sessions of radiation treatment.

01/01/2013 | Latin America

Venezuelan Vice-President Nicolás Maduro stated during an interview that President Hugo Chávez is "aware of the complex situation he is going through," and blasted the press over the rumours about of his condition.

04/01/2013 | Latin America

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez's formal swearing-in for a new six-year term scheduled for Jan. 10 can be postponed if he is unable to attend due to his struggle to recover from cancer surgery, his vice-president said today.

14/04/2012 | Latin America

Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, will not be participating in the VI Americas Summit which began today in Cartagena and is set to travel to Cuba in order to continue his radiotherapy treatment, Venezuela foreign minister, Nicolás Maduro informed today.

03/08/2012 | Latin America

The Spanish politician who was driving a car that crashed in Cuba last month, killing the island's top dissident, was in proceedings to have his license revoked, according to Spain's national traffic authority.

18/05/2012 | Latin America

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez ended a weeklong silence after his latest cancer treatment with a call to state television, singing a folk song and vowing to deepen his self-styled socialist "revolution."

13/07/2012 | Latin America

The ship named ‘Ana Cecilia,’ which set sail on Wednesday from Miami to Havana, arrived today to the main port in Havana, beginning a regular shipping service between the two cities that has not been being carried out for over five decades.

26/07/2012 | Latin America

Cuba adopted a new tax code this week and said it would loosen regulations on some state companies while turning others into cooperatives, as one of the world's last Soviet-style economies moves in a more market-friendly direction.

27/07/2012 | Latin America

A Spanish politician was to blame for a car crash that killed two Cuban dissidents, including Oswaldo Paya, Cuba said in a report on an accident that has raised suspicions among opposition activists and some foreign governments.

30/07/2012 | Latin America

Two European politicians who survived a car crash that killed prominent Cuban dissident Oswaldo Paya said that no other vehicle was involved and denied suggestions they had been deliberately forced off the road.

24/01/2013 | Latin America

FARC rebels and the Colombian government adjourned their latest round of peace talks today with no major advances toward ending their long conflict and said they had significant differences to overcome despite some areas of agreement.

04/02/2013 | Latin America

Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro said Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is getting "much better" as he recovers from cancer surgery almost two months ago in Havana, Communist Party newspaper Granma reported today.

12/02/2013 | Latin America

More than a week after former leader Fidel Castro was quoted in Cuban media as saying Venezuela's cancer-stricken President Hugo Chávez was "much better," the Communist Party newspaper published a different, toned down version of his comments.

15/02/2013 | Latin America

Venezuela's government published the first pictures of cancer-stricken Hugo Chávez since his operation in Cuba more than two months ago, showing him smiling while lying in bed reading a newspaper, flanked by his two daughters.

17/02/2013 | Latin America

Cuba's best-known dissident, blogger Yoani Sánchez, a former Buenos Aires Herald columnist, checked in without incident at Havana's international airport on Sunday on her way to Brazil, the first stop on an 80-day-tour of a dozen countries.

06/03/2013 | Latin America

11/03/2013 | Latin America

Cuba's Fidel Castro praised the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez as a champion of the poor and said Cubans had lost their best friend ever, in his first comments on the death last week of his socialist ally.

19/07/2013 | Latin America

When a North Korean ship carrying Cuban arms was seized last week in Panama on suspicion of smuggling drugs, Cuba first said it was loaded with sugar for the people of North Korea, according to a Panamanian official familiar with the matter.

03/05/2013 | Latin America

Cuba said it would consider letting in UN human rights investigators to examine allegations of torture and repression and allowing Red Cross officials access its prisons after a gap of nearly 25 years.

13/08/2012 | Latin America

Revolutionary icon Fidel Castro turns 86 today. Castro has been out of view for almost two months, not having appeared in any way or published one of his occasional opinion columns in the state press since June 19.

26/11/2013 | Latin America

Cuba is shutting down nearly all of its consular services in the United States until further notice after it said no bank would handle its business, the government announced, blaming the situation on the longstanding US economic embargo.

01/02/2014 | Latin America

Uruguay’s head of state, José 'Pepe' Mujica assured the bilateral relation “is being restored”, as he anticipated that efforts will continue in order to overpass the differences with Argentina, after a meeting he held with President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in Cuba.

28/01/2014 | Latin America

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was attending the official opening of the II Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States that is taking place in Havana. Cuban Raúl Castro was in charge of delivering the inaugurating address.

26/03/2014 | Latin America

Cuba's government has released further information on a proposed foreign investment law that will cut the profits tax in half and exempt investors from paying it for eight years in an attempt to attract capital into the communist economy.

12/04/2014 | Latin America

France's foreign minister met with Cuban President Raul Castro during the first visit to the island by such a high-ranking French official in 31 years and a sign of the quickening pace of improving ties between the European Union and Havana.

15/05/2014 | Latin America

21/05/2014 | Latin America

Cuban opposition blogger Yoani Sánchez launched today the country’s first independent media in over half a century. Her digital newspaper “14ymedio" aims to break up the state media monopoly and “accompany the needed transition to occur in our country,” as she explained.

22/07/2014 | Latin America

Chinese President Xi Jinping begins a two day visit to Cuba, the last stop of a regional tour that took him to Brazil for the BRICS Summit, Argentina and Venezuela. At his arrival in Havana, Jingping pledged “friendly, mutually beneficial cooperation between the two countries”.

23/07/2014 | Latin America

Chinese President Xi Jinping ended an eight-day trip through Latin America with a visit to eastern Cuba, where both the island's independence struggle against Spain and Fidel Castro's revolution began.

20/10/2014 | Latin America

"I am convinced that if this threat is not stopped in West Africa with an immediate international response ... it could become one of the gravest pandemics in human history," the President of Cuba told a summit of the leftist ALBA bloc of Latin American and Caribbean countries in Havana.

22/10/2014 | Latin America

A plane carrying some 50 Cuban doctors and nurses has arrived in Liberia to help treat victims of Ebola in the West African country, where a US military mission is also deploying to fight the deadly virus.

23/02/2011 | Latin America

The family of late hunger striker Orlando Zapata Tamayo put flowers on his grave and sang the Cuban national anthem on the first anniversary of his death that provoked international condemnation of Cuba's human rights.

16/03/2015 | Latin America

28/01/2011 | Latin America

A well-known Cuban dissident and about 15 associates were arrested as they tried to march down a street in central Santa Clara province, the third time in as many days they were detained for mounting peaceful protests.

04/02/2011 | Latin America

Cuban prosecutors will seek a 20-year prison sentence for jailed US aid contractor Alan Gross, who is accused of espionage in a case that has stalled US-Cuba relations, the Communist Party newspaper Granma said.

20/12/2014 | Latin America

"In the same way we never demanded the US change its political system, we will demand respect for ours," Castro said during a National Assembly session that turned into a celebration of US aggression resistance.

03/02/2015 | Latin America

02/01/2015 | Latin America

11/07/2014 | Latin America

Russian President Vladimir Putin met former Cuban leader Fidel Castro and current President Raul Castro today, to begin a six-day tour of Latin America in which Russia is seeking to reassert its influence on the communist-ruled island.

07/04/2013 | Arts and Media

Two Republican members of Congress have asked the US Treasury Department for information on what type of license US pop star Beyonce and rapper husband Jay Z obtained for a high-profile trip to Cuba to celebrate their wedding anniversary.

10/12/2013 | Multimedia

US President Barack Obama shook the hand of Cuban President Raul Castro at a memorial to Nelson Mandela today, an unprecedented gesture between the leaders of two nations which have been at loggerheads for more than half a century.

24/06/2014 | In Depth - 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil

Former Cuban President Fidel Castro congratulated retired Argentine footballer Diego Maradona for his television program analyzing the World Cup and also saluted current Argentine goal-scorer Lionel Messi for carrying on the glory for Argentina.